He has a set plan based on innings and not results. That's how you end up with Ryan or ober pulled at 70 pitches but SWR going five regardless of it takes him 100 pitches or 50.
Disingenuous at best. A straight up F you at anything else. I would have resigned before making any of those trades.
Sadly, there will be people who just accept this and think we somehow improved in either the short term or long term.
I miss the days where trade deadline deals were relatively scarce and the teams that played in October were virtually the same as the teams that broke camp in April.